ANDY MERRIFIELD is an independent scholar and author of a dozen books, as well as numerous
articles, essays and reviews appearing in Monthly Review, The Nation, Harper’s Magazine, New
Left Review, The Guardian, Literary Hub, Jacobin, and Dissent. He is a prolific writer about
urbanism, political theory and literature, with titles credited to him including Dialectical
Urbanism (Monthly Review Press), The New Urban Question, and Magical Marxism. He has also
published three intellectual biographies, of Henri Lefebvre, Guy Debord, and John Berger, a
popular existential travelogue, The Wisdom of Donkeys, a manifesto for liberated living, The
Amateur, together with a memoir about cities and love, inspired by Raymond Carver’s short
stories, called What We Talk About When We Talk About Cities (and Love).